Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
10 best books like Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages (Harold Bloom): The Necessary Shakespeare, Fendar's Legacy, The Well At The World's End: Volume I, Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, Park City: New and Selected Stories, A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, Violet's Defiant Daughter
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0321272501 |
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist...
| Author | Paul McCusker |
| ISBN | 1561798452 |
Panicking in an unruly crowd, Danny, Wayne and Michelle tumble head over heels into the icey waters of Trickle Lake. But when they come up for air, they're shocked to find themselves in a large public fountain - in a time and place far from Odyssey!When the trio attempts to escape from the police, one is...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1587150883 |
Possibly the second true "imaginary world" fantasy novel (the possible first being Morris' The Wood beyond the World). Also, for a long time one of the longest -- 220,000 words, more-or-less, so longer than just about anything up until a certain Oxford professor started writing about a certain trip...
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion
| Author | David Crystal |
| ISBN | 0140291172 |
A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries...
| Author | Elise Paschen |
| ISBN | 1570717206 |
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.
One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1421911701 |
Compared to the Nineteenth Century's Romantic movement and the Seventeenth's Shakespeare and Milton, the Eighteenth has always felt a veritable void to me. There was a little bit going on in France with Diderot and Voltaire, and some minor British works by Swift and Defoe, but by and large, Eighteenth...
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| ISBN | 0679781331 |
For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374416966 |
An ALA Notable Book.
“Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city-- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion,...
Violet's Defiant Daughter
| Author | Martha Finley |
| ISBN | 1928749232 |
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| Author | Wendy Lawton |
| ISBN | 0802440983 |
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800's. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. Should she obey her masters or listen to her conscience?
This story from Harriet's childhood is a record of courage. Even more, it's a story of God's faithfulness,...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671798995 |
It's her mother's crazy idea: a trip to Texas to save the buffalo. Amanda Guthridge just wants to ride horses with her boyfriend Philip and plan her coming-out party. But suddenly they're facing alligators, rattlesnakes, and stampeding buffalo on the Texas-Oklahoma frontier with David Talltree,...
| Author | Irene Taylor |
| ISBN | 1841951722 |
Disappointing. I have read enough diaries to know that these are not "the world's greatest diarists" -- or rather, some of them are nothing special and the ones who are good diarists benefit not at all from being taken in small out-of-order chunks. I'm giving up after reading the fourth entry on the Titanic...
